distinguishable

English

Etymology

From distinguish +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃə.bl̩]

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Adjective

distinguishable (comparative more distinguishable, superlative most distinguishable)

1. Able, or easily able to be distinguished.

   Synonym: differentiable

   Black is very distinguishable against a white background

   • 2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in United States Copyright Office‎^[1], page 2:

     First, Vodafone contended that the symbol within the circle is not an apostrophe but a “ballooned droplet,” and “is readily distinguishable from an apostrophe, both in the stylization of its curvature and its orientation . . . .”

Antonyms

• indistinguishable
• confusable
• mistakable

Derived terms

• distinguishability
• distinguishableness
• distinguishably
• nondistinguishable
• undistinguishable

Translations

able, or easily able to be distinguished

• Belarusian: адро́зны (adrózny), адме́тны (be) (admjétny)
• Catalan: distingible
• Esperanto: distingebla
• French: distinguable (fr), distinguible (fr)
• Galician: distinguible (gl), distinguíbel (gl)
• German: unterscheidbar (de), differenzierbar (de)
• Greek: διακρίσιμος (el) (diakrísimos), διακριτός (el) (diakritós)
• Hungarian: megkülönböztethető (hu)
• Italian: distinguibile (it)
• Japanese: 判りやすい (ja) (wakariyasui), 区別できる (ja) (kubetsu dekiru)
• Manx: yn-chronnaghey, yn-scarrey
• Portuguese: distinguível
• Romanian: distingibil
• Russian: различи́мый (ru) (različímyj), отличи́мый (otličímyj), отли́чный (ru) (otlíčnyj)
• Spanish: distinguible
• Swedish: urskiljbar (sv)
• Ukrainian: відмі́нний (uk) (vidmínnyj)